By Benjamin Bates | Media & Journalism in Transition

A report this week ranked Britain’s 4G service behind Romania and Peru. It’s not quite as simple as that, but patchy signal is still a problem in plenty of the country<p><b>Is the UK’s 4G mobile phone coverage really worse than Romania, Albania and Peru, as a report suggested last week?</b><br>Yes and no. The …

Earlier this week, Facebook said that it would be partnering with fact-checking sites like Snopes to help weed out the fake news that has been plaguing the site in recent years. But it seems that Germany is not confident that self-regulation will be enough.<p>The chairman of Germany’s Social …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday voted to retain nearly all rules limiting cross-ownership of newspapers, radio and TV stations in the same market, a source familiar with the vote said.<p>The decision is a blow to struggling newspaper companies that have …

The FCC published a pair of decisions last week that show in sharp contrast the right and wrong ways regulators use their authority to shape the trajectory of disruptive technologies. This time, the continuing evolution of the Internet is at stake.<p>First, the agency voted to open large amounts of …

The iPhone isn't even 10 years old, but its impact on the tech industry and on Apple itself has been huge. Now it has reached a new milestone.<p>Apple sold its billionth iPhone last week.<p>CEO Tim Cook announced the milestone during an employee meeting Wednesday, and then the company noted the news …

I’d almost be willing to bet a million dollars that you have a Facebook account. Of course you do, because Facebook revealed in its second quarter earnings today just how many people use Facebook every day. According to the report, as of June 30th, it had over 1.7 billion monthly active users …